The College of Design is welcoming several new faculty members across the college.
“We are thrilled to have these outstanding new faculty members join the College of Design and look forward to working with additional visiting faculty in art, architecture, interior architecture, and landscape architecture throughout this academic year,” said Dean Christoph Lindner.
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Emily Scott
Scott earned her PhD in contemporary (post-1945) art history, with minors in cultural geography and American art, from UCLA in 2010. Her writings have appeared in Art Journal, Art Journal Open, American Art, Third Text, The Avery Review, and Field. Her first book, Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics, coedited with Kirsten Swenson, was published by the University of California Press in 2015.
Prior to joining the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Scott was a visiting professor at Vrije University Amsterdam and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
School of Planning, Public Policy and Management
Anne E. Brown
Brown completed her doctorate at UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) this spring and spent the summer putting her research into action as an ITS postdoctoral fellow. Brown was previously a researcher at UCLA’s ITS.
John Arroyo
Earning his PhD at MIT in Urban Planning, Policy, and Design as a Ford Foundation Fellow, Arroyo’s dissertation analyzed how Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans reshape their built environment, and how local and regional-level planning institutions in small municipalities adjust their spatial policies to either accommodate or discriminate against this change in greater Atlanta.
Arroyo will be deferring his start date at the UO because he recently received an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. While there, he’ll be working on his first book, Shadow Suburbanism: Mexican Everyday Life, Fear, and Space in Greater Atlanta.
José Melendez
Originally from El Salvador, Melendez has a PhD in Learning Sciences from the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), and is wrapping up a postdoctoral fellow at UIC. His dissertation was based on a three-year ethnographic study that focused on a participatory budgeting process in the City of Chicago.
As a long-time runner, Melendez will fit right in here in Track Town. He describes himself as “a political junkie, a world traveler, and a dancer who loves theater and the arts.”
Thomas Götschi
Thomas Götschi will be joining the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management for a research appointment this year and working with the Sustainable Cities Initiative and the Institute for Policy Research and Engagement.
Most recently Götschi was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention at the University of Zurich. He holds a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Southern California. His thesis explored the long-term effects of air pollution on lung function in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey.
Since then he has conducted expansive research in the field of active transportation, bridging aspects of health, safety, and travel behavior. He is a core developer of WHO’s Health Economic Assessment Tool for walking and bicycling and a specialist in health impact assessments related to transportation.
School of Art + Design
Xiaojiao “Alex” Xu
Alex Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Product Design’s Sports Product Design graduate program in Portland. His current research focuses on the integration of emerging technologies in the research and design of performance sportswear.
In his teaching philosophy, Xu views design as “a behavioral paradigm that depicts how humans react to given circumstances.” He studied at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and earned his Master of Design degree at the University of Cincinnati (UC).
Xu is a creative designer and educator with a wide breadth of experiences. Formerly at UC, he held positions ranging from a children's hospital researcher to a studio drawing master. He’s also served as an independent creative for companies such as P&G, Pfizer, Samsung, Bayer, and LEGO in a variety of projects.
Eric Ramos Guerrero
His work has appeared in several shows in New York. Visit Guerrero’s website to see his paintings, drawings, and a performance project called “Cortez Killer Cutz Mixtape Radio,” at a performance space in Brooklyn, NY. The project serves as a social platform for artistic collaboration and community engagement.
School of Architecture & Environment
Jerolim Mladinov
Jerolim Mladinov will be joining the Department of Architecture in the School of Architecture & Environment as a professor of practice, while continuing his work as an Associate Architect at Sasaki Associates, based in Watertown, MA. Mladinov will be teaching two classes this fall: Arch 383 Architectural Design III and Arch 407/507 Seminar: Terminal Prep.
Some of his projects at Sasaki include the Colby College Athletic Center in Maine, the field house and ice hockey rink at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, and the stadium at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Monterrey, Mexico.
He earned his Master of Architecture from the University of Zagreb in Croatia.